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Vickers Dazed Over Pit Road Penalties
Tuesday, 03 June 2008 11:30

 

Brian Vickers was clocked for speeding coming out of pit road two times on Sunday at Dover International Speedway. Vickers was mind boggled as to how that could have ever happened.

 

"To be honest, I can't explain it," Vickers said. "They called us for speeding twice on pit road, but you know as well as I do, when you're in the last couple of boxes on pit road you can go as hard as you can and can't speed.

 

"The second time they called us was under caution, I wasn't even racing anybody. I was still in first gear puttering along. I don't know if there's something wrong with their timing and scoring or something funny going on there, but unfortunately it cost us a good finish."

 

Vickers had positioned himself in the top-ten all day until those penalties set him two laps back. He managed a thirteenth place finish.

 

Jeff Gordon suffered the same penalties last year at Dover, and Gordon’s team was located in the first pit stall inquire. Red Bull Racing general manager Jay Frye questioned Steve Letarte – Jeff Gordon’s crew chief - for an explanation.

 

"The way he explained it is, there's a line and there's one more loop there at the end. At the end you're obviously hammering it, because you're gone, you think. But you're not, you're still inside that thing," Frye said. "We lost two laps because if it. That doesn't help anything.

 

"The main thing is, the finishes are going to take care of themselves. Like last week at Charlotte, we finished 42nd, but we had one of the best cars there. [Sunday] we finished 13th, but we had one of the best cars here. If we can keep doing that, the finishes will take care of themselves."